{"id":181,"date":"2009-09-12T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=181"},"modified":"2009-09-12T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T15:53:00","slug":"181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an absolutely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startuplessonslearned.com\/2009\/01\/why-php-won.html\">brilliant summary<\/a> of the virtues of PHP. <\/p>\n<p>The important point is that these virtues aren&#8217;t going away. By comparison <a href=\"http:\/\/jacobian.org\/writing\/snakes-on-the-web\/\">this<\/a> seems to miss the point. In 2020 we won&#8217;t be programming the web with an advanced Python framework (wonderful as python is). We&#8217;ll have something which does what PHP did for CGI or Processing does Java, ie. wrap a purpose built, sophisticated back-end (something like Google Application Engine) in a light, domain-specific language. That language won&#8217;t look like PHP. It would be nice if it looked like Python, but I suspect Javascript is a more likely model.<\/p>\n<p>But it will retain the virtues of PHP : none of this fussy separation of presentation and logic; easy <span>discoverability<\/span> of where URLs go; fast iterative development; big built-in library etc.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat-tip, BillSeitz for the links)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an absolutely brilliant summary of the virtues of PHP. The important point is that these virtues aren&#8217;t going away. By comparison this seems to miss the point. In 2020 we won&#8217;t be programming the web with an advanced Python framework (wonderful as python is). We&#8217;ll have something which does what PHP did for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,249,340,365,494],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gae","tag-little-languages","tag-php","tag-python","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}